This overnight leg included a blizzard, more than 12 inches of snow, icy roads, and high winds, resulting in significant traffic delays, the closure and then re-opening of I-70, the closure of the I-25, and the re-routing of the drive to CO-14 and then US85.

Total number of closed roads & highways encountered – Two (I-70 and I-25, both in Colorado)

The new Supercharger route that spans the US cuts a northern pass, taking drivers close to natural and man-made attractions, such as Arches National Park, Colorado Monument, Mount Rushmore, the Black Hills, Badlands National Park, the Grand Canyon, and the Hualapai Mountains. We didn’t have any time for sightseeing, but the views out the Model S windows were amazing. Here’s the exact route we took, including the distance between each Supercharger.

Hawthorne, Los Angeles to Barstow, CA 109 miles

to Kingman, AZ 210 miles

to Flagstaff, AZ 152 miles

to Blanding, UT 249 miles

to Moab, UT 75 miles

to Grand Junction, CO 109 miles

to Glenwood Springs, CO 90 miles

to Silverthorne, CO 94 miles

to Cheyenne, WY 165 miles

to Lusk, WY 158 miles

to Rapid City, SD 149 miles

to Murdo, SD 137 miles

to Mitchell, SD 141 miles

to Worthington, MN 127 miles

to Albert Lea, MN 116 miles

to La Crosse, WI 127 miles

to Mauston, WI 66 miles

to Highland Park, IL 201 miles

to Mishawaka, IN 121 miles

to Maumee, OH 151 miles

to Macedonia, OH 131 miles

to Somerset, PA 176 miles

to Hagerstown, MD 108 miles

to Newark, DE 137 miles

to New York City 128 miles

Superchargers skipped

Our goal for the cross country trip was to achieve the lowest possible charge time for an electric car traveling across the US. With that in mind, we selected a Supercharger route that let us spend minimal time at each post. That means the Tesla team necessarily had to skip some of the Superchargers along the route.

No, it’s quite possible to go across country using the network only in an S60. The team skipped chargers. Go here: http://supercharge.info/ and set the radii to 70 miles (comfortably less than half the S60’s range). You can easily make it across in an S60. No L2s needed.